Orthodox vs Catholic Christmas

From time to time, each time at Christmas time,  I hear of some Orthodox Christmas or Catholic Christmas. The idea is as great a popular misconception as the bizarre notion which made itself into school textbooks and CIA-administered Wikipedia that the Holy Roman Empire was founded by or in fact has anything to do with Charlemagne.

The Orthodox Church in Russia, an insitutition that was called Orthodox or Right-believers Graeco-Catholic Russian Church (Православная каѳолическая греко-российская церковь), the establishment that is called Russian Orthodox Church was in today's Russia was founded by Stalin in 1943 and in my opinion has little to do with the Empire's Graeco-Catholic Russian Church,  also celebrates Christmas on December 24 but the Orthodox Church in Russia uses Julian Calendar - one that was introduced by Julius Ceasar in 48 BC - while the rest of the world and other churches (I think some Orthodox ones like the one Greece which switched a few decades back) use a different calendar, one introduced under Pope Gregory XIII in the year in 1586-1587 when it was adopted in Austria, Spain (then both in a dynastic union?), France, and all states of Italy.

England kept using Julian calendar until 1752, so for almost 200 years from 1587 to 1752 France and Austria had one calendar and England and Russia used a different one (the one that is still used by the semi-official Orthodox church in Russia).

Despite this article (http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud/cal_art.html#Julian_Calendar) - where I got the reference to important dates from, I don't remember dates,  - aside from inconvenience of pushing Easter closer to the summer months,  I could never figure out why the perfectly sound Julian system had to be replaced by the Gregorian one or which one of them is more accurate. 

Merry Christmas to all. 

Vladmir Putin and the Fortune-teller

A few minutes ago I stumbled upon a delicious fable narrated in Russian and published on the pages of the Putinstan Facebook community (the community is obviously Russophone, though not Russophobe, what a difference a letter makes! and as its name implies has a somewhat ironic edge).

Here is the story:

Vladimir Putin comes to a fortune teller and asks her:
—You, tell me my fortune.
The fortune teller announces:
— Oh I see you being driven in a big automobile with an open top and there are crowds of people  all around you — she paused for a split second and then continued:
— I see that those people are jubilant, they are waving flags and balloons; they are applauding and are shouting "bravo". Their faces are radiant with happiness.
Putin smiled as he uttered: I knew that all along, the people love me. Can I shake their hands?
— Alas not, the coffin is nailed shut.

Pussy Riot: why these riotous pussies are different

Some Alexander Lukashevich (a relative of the Minsk tyrant?), a functionary of the Russian Federation Foreign Ministry responded to the "criticism" that leaders of a few civilized European states timidly voiced, murmured rather sheepishly, by calling the verdict in the Pussy Riot case undeservingly harsh.  Comrade Lukashevich then said that there is no big deal about sentencing because Germany also has a law on the books that penalizes deliberate offenses against religion in the places of worship with up to three years in jail and Austria has a similar where maximum jail term is six months though ( "members" of or perhaps in the Pussy Riot, already spent five behind bars). Lukashevich conveniently forgot to mention that unlike the Russian Federation (which is neither Russian nor a federation), neither the Austrian Republic nor Germany are one man run dictatorships.

The Comrade did not say that in Austria and Germany a local equivalent of the Pussy Riot would be free to perform wherever they wanted without need to break into say Vienna's St. Stephan's Cathedral to make any point which if they made there would probably be misunderstood.  Also in Austria the church and the state are not separate but they are in Russia and the public funding of church buildings is not allowed while Christ the Savior building would hardly be classified as church in Austria or Germany, people would find it odd why a massage parlor or pizzeria should be called... a church.

 So what is the difference between Russian Federation (when I say Russia down in the text I still mean Russian Federation which is not Russia exactly, but let's keep it simple) and Austrian or Germany (I am less familiar with the latter)?

In Russia one in effect now needs an advance  permit to perform in a public place or people in fact need permits to gather in public with whatever purpose - be it to listen to the music or to pray for dismemberment of Putin.

This goes on while the Russian Constitution specifically spells out the right of citizens to gather freely or assemble in  public space, to demonstrate and to picket (government buildings) without asking one, lest the government, for a permission.

The Constitution says and mind you that it is the Fundamental Law and as such  overrides anything else unless it is suspended or done away with it.

quote
Article 31
Citizens of the Russian Federation have the right to peaceful, unarmed assembly and may stage public gatherings, meetings, demonstrations, processions and engage in picketing.
unquote

anything else that infringes that right is legally null and void

Article 44

1. Everyone shall be guaranteed the freedom of literary, artistic, scientific, technical and other types of creative activity, and teaching. Intellectual property shall be protected by law.


Article 29.

4. Everyone shall have the right to freely look for, receive, transmit, produce and distribute information by any legal way. The list of data comprising state secrets shall be determined by a federal law.

5. The freedom of mass communication shall be guaranteed.

Censorship is illegal.


end of quote

Now those four provisions of the Russian Constitution are illegally suspended and citizens are stripped of most basic liberties.
quote
Article 76/3 of the Russian Constitution:
Federal laws may not contradict/be in conflict with the federal Constitutional laws
unquote

(the above means that those rules and laws passed by Putinista state restricting civil liberties or in effect banning demonstrations and public performances are really not worth  Putin's own used toilet paper).


Furthermore the right of Russian citizens to assembly, to non-discrimination and their freedom of expression are protected by the European Convention on Human Rights, which under Russian Fundamental law takes precedence over all federal laws:

Chapter 1. The Fundamentals of the Constitutional System
Article 15
quote
4. The universally-recognized norms of international law and international treaties and agreements of the Russian Federation shall be an integral part of its legal system. If an international treaty or international agreement   the Russian Federation is a party to, presupposes  other rules than those envisaged by the (domestic) law, the rules of the international agreement shall be applied (instead).
unquote


It is obvious that Pussy Riot would have been arrested had they merely asked for a permit to do what they did. They would have never obtained that permit. We have the evidence of wholesale denial of permits to assembly although the authorities' demand that citizens even appply for such a permit is totally illegal  - in no place does the Constitution state  that any minor demonstration must be explicitly permitted in writing by those against whom the people are demonstrating.

Recently, authorities in Nizhni Novgorod had denied permission to a group of citizens who wanted to make a collective trip to a store in order to buy a loaf of bread. May be in a country like Sweden the authorities would have told the petitioners that there is no permit required to buy bread. In Putinista  Russia they denied it because the saw this application as a form of protest.  As dissent.

Now whether Pussy Riots are talented musicians or not is a different story.  I believe they are perhaps one of the most talented musicians in today's Russia  (that says more about the state of music in the Muscovite state rather than about talents of those riotous pussies).  But their talents are irrelevant. You have a right to express yourself in public that is protected by the constitution and by the international treaties the Russian Federation is a party to.

My argument is that if they are illegally denied the freedom to perform in public that is guaranteed to them by the Constitution (the fundamental law of the land that is superior to all other laws) and by the European Convention on human rights, then they are entitled to perform anywhere, including the public building - as the cathedral of Christ the Savior is not a church but a public building maintained at the public expense , at the expense of members of the Pussy Riot group and of their parents, in a country where state and church are constitutionally separate

In case of the Pussy Riot, the Putinist state is clearly outside the law and not the Pussy Riot.

The state might have power of coercion like courts, prisons and concentration camps at its disposal but be still acting illegally.

Here is an example,  Nazis in occupied France or Greece had passed laws, rules, regulations, ordinances, sentenced people, executed them, shipped people off to concentration camps,  but their activity was considered illegal by most of the world and by the subjugated  populations, which though might have temporarily submitted to the terror unleashed upon it did not hold the regime of occupation as legitimate. I think what we see in Russia is a parallel to that - in some cases like in parts of northern Caucasus where the only authority is the force the situation is almost that of a mirror, in large Russian cities people refer to government officials, their servants and police as "occupiers" although I'd say that perhaps the Nazis had more legal and moral authority in some of the occupied territories (say in the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia)  while Putinista state is clearly acting outside of the domestic and international law, i.e. is the state in what is left of Russia that is an outlaw.  And here lies the  fundamental difference from Austria and Germany.


If the state as is clearly the case in Russia has placed itself outside of the boundaries of  law and is acting obviously illegally then it cannot judge Pussy Riots who   acted within their constitutional rights. If we transplant the case  to the soil of one of US states, say to Rhode Island, or to France, and if we had a situation when the Pussy Riot could perform anywhere they wanted to but instead chose to break into a  church (which is not public property there but private) and stage a mock concert there during a service to which  people came for quiet worship, then they would deserve to be arrested and prosecuted with disturbance of public peace or perhaps with the offense of trespassing, although in all likelihood in a realthey would be let go to avoid a scandal.

However the Pussy Riot's case is  entirely different, in fact it is the opposite of what I described in the previous paragraph.

One also should keep in mind that Pussy Riot did not perform in the Temple of Christ the Savior Commerce because the short staged movie clip that is being circulated on the Internet is clearly out of tact and there is loud music but the video does not show any musical instruments deployed, there are no electrical guitars playing, no percussion, so the audio track was then laid over the video, it is not authentic, and  that presents the story in an entirely different light.

The light is that of a fabrication, of a show trial, of a grotesque political persecution of three young women who attempted to exercise their constitutional rights and were punished for doing so by the illegitimate outlaw of a state because in their message they offended the usurper that stands at or rather sits on the head of that lawless state.

Together with the recently passed illegal discriminatory legislation that bans lesbians and homosexuals from gathering in public (the laws are illegal fourfold or rather eightfold  as they violate both the Russian Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights separate provisions on non-discrimination, the right to assembly, the right of self-expression, the right of legal recourse), the political persecution of the Pussy Riot can become a foundation for the Defense of Freedom in Russia Act in the USA and similar sanctions in the EU, modeled perhaps on Belarus and targeting officials instead of ordinary people, something I see in the form of a Magnitsky List on steroids. At this stage when the state in Russia has become an international and domestic outlaw, only foreign sanctions targeted at deputies and officials of the Muscovite state would force it to modify its nasty behavior. As far as individuals are concerned, the deputies, functionaries and officials of the Muscovite state are fully oriented toward countries where civil liberties are respected, such "abominations" as gay parades permitted and a group of citizens won't need to ask for a permit to make a collective purchase of a loaf of bread -  they drive or are being driven in big foreign cars, send their kids to study to civilized parts of Europe and the USA, have foreign residence permits and hold enormous assets, as one of Putin's chief inquisitor, a lowlife named Bystrikin, the Head of Investigative Committee,   has a residence permit in the Czech Republic, owns a company there and real estate in Bohemia, and keep their funds abroad. If the most vicious persecutors and violators of civil rights and their family members  are denied the privilege of travel to the EU and the USA and of having assets there, then the Putinist state would disintegrate as the only glue that holds it  together is the privileged consumption of the top level nomeklatura and of the Muscovite Thieving Class that is affiliated with it

The Pussy Riot case can also become another reason to move faster toward suspension of the Russian Federation's voting rights at the Council of Europe

The final thought on the "verdict":  I am fairly confident that the case will be go before the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg where the Putinista state  would get a ceremonial whipping.



References:
The European Convention on Human Rights


The Constitution of the Russian Federation

On riotous pussies

I am discoursing with Mike Averko here and will then post my own opinion on the case, which - my opinion and not the case - is based on Russian Federation and international law.

Mike Averko:

They shouldn't have been prosecuted?

They didn't carry on in a way that in a Western setting would lead to a stiffer crime?

It was brought to my attention that in the UK, some football fan used racially abusive terminology when referring to a black British footballer who had suffered a heart attack during a match. The person who Tweeted that insulting and hurtful remark about the unfortunate sportsman was arrested and charged with committing a "racially aggravated public order offence". He was sentenced to 56 days imprisonment. I suspect that defendant showed more remorse and respect than PR. Mind you he said such at his own toilet of a Tweet. Pussy Riot could've blabbed on like they had been doing before. Specifically, outside a venue that had been previously targeted with left of center anti-religious violence.

Imagine the reply to a hypothetical Anti-Pussy Riot group uninvitingly entering the home of the husband of one of the PR performers (who was in a BBC segment) and doing a taped performance with lyrics that include something along the lines of : Pussy Riot are a not so talented group of ****** *** stooges.

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Of course not,  Pussy Riot should not be prosecuted! They are heroines.  They stood up for the nation's collective rights.

I do not consider the United Khalifate - I guess that what you meant by the abbreviation "UK" -  either free or democratic in any sense but the victim of what sounds like unjust persecution on that island tweeted his remark. I do not use the Twitter but I assume it is akin to a form of Internet broadcasting, i.e. in making a statement you intend others, potentially millions, to hear.

The victim never classified his message as politically motivated or as art.

And as an upfront disclaimer, I don't think we should bring in legal practices of the UK, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Uganda into the equation here. If we want to make comparisons, let's make them with comparable European states or with America(s).

Next is why do I think Pussy Riot's case is different, unique, and should not be confused with situation in other countries. 

Anti-Putin Propagandist Absurdities of the Pussy Riots trials

While I consider this to be totally plausible, that the Pussy Riots accident was set up as a trap by Putin's foreign "partners" - as the dwarfish Usurper calls Russia's enemies, I am unsure if a hint of humor is present in phrases like  "our American partners" , the trap for the increasingly paranoid and delusional corrupt Muscovite junta to fall in head on - the Pussy Riot "performance" was by all counts a spectacular success for the organizers (the "partners"), the propagandist onslaught goes over the top as the employees of the enemy's propaganda ministry lose last vestiges of restraint.

This blog is published on the pages of America's own Völkischer Beobachter

Here a vile Russophobe creature called Masha Gessen (who I assume is Hessen, though I doubt she has any relation to the indigenous inhabitants of that largest German state) rhapsodies on the much overused allegations of historic antisemitism blended with discharge from the riotous pussies

(Thanks to Mike Averko for pointing this out):
let me quote: 

Re: http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/13/the-stalin-in-putin/

Someone's rhetorically appropriate reply -


Masha Gessen is breaking her own records now.



“Thirteen members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee were killed in Moscow 60 years ago this past Sunday”


“This coming Friday, the three young women of Pussy Riot, who have recently become known the world over, will be sentenced in a Moscow court.”



“There are obvious parallels between the two absurd and cruel trials”



Now, just imagine if the president of Russia would kill 13 Jews in Russia today, then it would be no worse than the Pussy Riot case.  Masha really devaluates the price of human life. All for the sake of some cheap propaganda.

I'd be posting casual on the go comments to the Mike Averko's pieces, lest they just disappear in my mailbox.

The original:
 Re: http://nationalinterest.org/blog/jacob-heilbrunn/silence-munich-the-olympics-7236

Excerpt –

“The Obama administration supports it. So does Mitt Romney. The ‘it’ in question is a moment of silence for the Israeli victims of a Palestinian terrorist organization called Black September at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Eleven members of the Israeli team were murdered. An online petition calling for a minute of silence also exists.                                                                                                                                               

But IOC president Jacques Rogge sees it differently. He’s adamantly resisting a formal moment of silence at the opening ceremony of the London Games this Friday: ‘We feel that the opening ceremony is an atmosphere that is not fit to remember such a tragic incident.’ When it comes to the Jews, the IOC curls into a fetal ball-as the Boston Globe points out, it has not resisted ceremonies for Bosnia or the victims of 9/11. But Munich is taboo.”

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At present, I wasn’t able to successfully click into the aforementioned Boston Globe article. I’m not offhand sure how the IOC held a ceremony for Bosnia. There’s this RFE/RL photo gallery regarding Bosnia and the Olympics (11th of 14 photos, with a pointed omission of noting Russian athletes among the featured Soviets):

http://www.rferl.org/media/photogallery/24642976.html

The photo concerning Bosnia was taken at the 1992 summer Olympics when Yugoslavia (then consisting of Serbia and Montenegro) was hypocritically kept out of that Olympiad. With some understandable disgust, Serbs and Montenegrins saw a Croat team take silver in men’s basketball, with the US finishing first. During this period, Yugoslavia appeared to have the second best men’s basketball team after the US. At the 1992 summer Olympics, Yugoslav teams were banned and individual Yugoslav athletes were made to compete as independent participants, not representing their country. The reason for this was quite hypocritical. Yugoslavia was accused of aiding Serb forces in the Bosnian Civil War, at a time when Croatia was doing the same for their brethren. In addition, the Bosnian Muslim nationalists were the recipients of foreign aid (military and otherwise) from abroad.

One wonders how multiethnic was the 1992 summer Olympic Bosnian delegation? At the time, I recall the Bosnian UN delegation being almost exclusively Muslim.

Bosnia continues to fall well short of a unitary mindset:

http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/2012/07/21/the-uncertain-future-of-bosnia/

Excerpt (from the National Interest piece)-

“Fear of Arab pressure, even a boycott? The desire to maintain an upbeat tone rather than acknowledge the dark past? Whatever the motive, and nothing has ever been too craven for the IOC in the past, Rogge tried to pacify his critics with a minute-long ceremony at the Olympic Village on Monday a part of something called the Olympic Truce, which, as the Washington Post reports, is a United Nations initiative that calls upon everyone to lay down their arms around the world during the Olympics. (Is Bashar Assad listening?)”

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Concerning that last particular, there’s another element having to do with the armed anti-Syrian government opposition. On the matter of laying down arms during an Olympiad, one can rhetorically bring this matter up in some other instances, including the Soviets in Afghanistan and the US in Southeast Asia.

Michael Averko - http://www.americanchronicle.com/authors/view/2713 - http://www.eurasiareview.com/author/michael-averko/


My commentary:

I think the reasons for the refusal, if true, to hold a moment of silence for the Israeli athletes could be the following:

the issue is political and the Olympics should stay out of politics, it is not the case as the US has politicized and scandalized Olympics, but in theory the politics should be kept out  - remembering victims of 9/11 is a different case as the issue is clearly not political. The 9/11 "attack" was organized by the US government to launch a series of wars of aggression and no political demands were made by any foreign power or party.

The event is relatively remote in time.  There were quite a few atrocities in the past one can remember - those moments of silence can be extended to hours.

Lastly the Palestine Israeli issue is not resolved, the conflict is ongoing so forcing everyone to take the Israeli side openly is hardly diplomatic or fit for Olympics (why not remember those 3500 Palestinian civilians,  women, small kids, murdered in the Sabra and Shatila massacre?). So though I am not condoning those who killed Israeli athletes in Munich, I think that if I were  Jacques Rogge I would be very reluctant with the idea of this going ahead because Olympics was never intended to be the place to show off one's politically motivated sadness or sympathy or turn into a platform for partisan foreign policy propaganda displays.

Christmas dishes and the Christmas spirit.

I thought of writing down a list of Christmas dishes, but then discovered that the CIA-pedia (the Wikipedia thing which, or rather the English part of it at least, is run by the CIA information war thugs) already did a nasty job on Christmas.

I found a fantastic article (in English) about Christmas food in Italy. Italy is great in most respects and cooking is a pillar of its greatness. Like all great cooking traditions the one of Italy is composed of regional varieties, culinary dialects that are rich in vocabulary, expressive in their diversity and covered with layers of history, poverty, affluence and class. Although all classes can now enjoy similar foods, different historic layers remain. Great culinary traditions consists of different types of cooking, diverse by region, separated by class. That puts any major European cooking tradition apart from primitive tribal food of say Estonian humans, sort of, which is bland and uniform and in case of that miserable land consists of potatoes, fat and water mixed with flower. Now their diet is supplemented by Soviet industrial cuisine of manufactured cellulose frankfurters and frozen preparations. At Christmas Estonian lowlifes consume blood sausage (to the British that is blood pudding). Both Christmas and blood sausage are German cultural imports because these were Germans (actually probably also Frisians) who brought civilization and Christianity to what is now Estonia though civilization did not stay for long, the Christianity was always shallow, and the Germans were not divine themselves and so could not endow local soulless savages with any kind human spirit, which is still profoundly lacking in that part of the world. Thus said German Blutwurst (blood sausage) is a delectable delicacy compared to reddish industrial refuse slobbering Estonian tribesmen devour on Christmas eve. On the other hand or rather on the opposite shore, the Finns have a different tradition, at Christmas dinner they savor succulent baked ham . Good stuff. I always thought that there was something inherently unfair in the fact that though those two tribes are linguistic relatives, one group consists almost entirely of lowlifes and the other of more or less reasonable human beings.

Christmas is dead in Russia - at least in the culinary sense it is. The Bolsheviks, who for the most part were not Christians , did everything in their power to wipe off Christmas tradition. With secularization, New Year became the most important holiday, as it is in France. Another thing that did Christmas in was the calendar shift. Soviet state adopted heretical - from the standpoint of the Right Believers, so-called Gregorian calendar while the Church, by then abused and persecuted, clung to the true old one, the calendar that was introduced by Julius Caesar himself, the Julian one. Russian Orthodox Church (the name Russian Orthodox Church appeared only in the year 1943, the new name was Stalin's invention, before 1943 it bore the historic name of Orthodox Catholic Graeco-Russian Church) still uses Julian Calendar but that it turn meant that Christmas now comes after New Year or rather there are now two New Years to deal with in sequence. Because Russians enjoy about three weeks of uninterrupted New Year and Christmas holidays which became vacations, by the time Christmas arrives everyone is already exhausted. But in the past roast goose or duck, usually stuffed with tart apples and sauerkraut, was served at Christmas time. I roast ducks all the time though - no need to wait for Christmas or Hannukah to cook one.

In Bohemia and Moravia, now Czech Republic, Christmas dishes represent a bit mutated tradition from the glorious times of the very Catholic Habsburg (Hapsburg) monarchy. The principal dish here is carp. I did not make any typos. Carps are farmed in the Czech republic and the time before Christmas is when those fish are killed en masse to be served on the Bohemian and Moravian tables. A friend of mine who is not Czech but who lives in Prague says that she knows it's Christmas time by the wail of ambulance sirens. Carp is a bony fish.


Killing of a carp (my digital snapshots, click for larger versions, contact me if you want the huge ones):

The fish is pulled out of water

The henchman takes the wretched fish to the chopping block for slaughter.

The murderer then hits the victim's head with a hammer to render him or her unconscious.

The victim's throat is slit.

Merry Christmas




Here is a beautiful Christmas carol by Hilaire Belloc, a brilliant poet, not just a versifier though he classified himself as such, unfairly, and an insightful author of rare significance and immense power, still under appreciated, much maligned and occasionally slandered (I had the joy of translating two volumes of his poems for "children" into Russian - The Bad Child's Book of Beasts and the classic More Beasts for Worse Children ) here it is, the Sailor's Carol:


Noel! Noel! Noel! Noel!
A Catholic tale I Have to tell!
And a Christian song I have to sing
While all the bells in Arundel ring.

I pray good beef and I pray good beer
This holy night of all the year,
But I pray detestable drink for them
That give no honour to Bethlehem.

May all good fellows that here agree
Drink Audit Ale in heaven with me,
And may all my enemies go to hell!
Noel! Noel! Noel! Noel!
May all my enemies go to hell!
Noel! Noel!!

Why do Americans hate the French? Pourquoi les Américains détestent les Français?

Why do Americans hate the French? Here's an interesting article on the nature of American animosity toward the French.

I for one after years of living in the USA must confirm that the average (white) American does dislike the French. White Americans also hate Russia and the Russians. It seems Americans collectively hate humans in general.

There are of course exceptions but I find Americans in general extraordinarily xenophobic though their xenophobia has some favorite objects of hate, the French.

I for one love France. I love everything French, culture, cities, countryside, wine, food of course, cars. To me the world is divided into two categories of people who either love everything French and those who dislike France and the French. The first category are good people. The second category are the scum of the earth. I am quite categorical at that.

Let me quote Thomas Jefferson, who is as culturally as remote from modern Americans as he is perhaps from average selection of Martians:

So ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, In what country on earth would you rather live?
—Certainly in my own, where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest & sweetest affections and recollections of my life.
Which would be your second choice?
- France.

The article is in French, so for those few unfortunate who can't read the lingua franca can most automatic translators to get the sense out of it.

Does Russophobia have an ethnic origin? It might have several. Followed by a preliminary note on the Russian parliamentary elections,

Today I received a link to this piece in the New York Times. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/03/opinion/russia-20-years-along.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all?src=tp

Although one can dismiss this off hand as usual Russophobe drivel from the American equivalent of Völkischer Beobachter (the equivalent of the Stürmer is based in Washington, DC, and it is called the Post) there are a few comments that I wanted to make lest people think that Ariel Cohen is a blue-blooded American who is somehow concerned with the fate of democracy in Russia. Notice the ugly illustrations that somehow alludes that Russia is Communist. 

Hello everyone, 


A few important points to make about this peace and its authorship.

Arial Cohen is Russian. He is a Russian Jew whose native language is  Russian, not American English.  He blogs in Russian and his language,  frankly, is flithy. He is in employ of   a fascist taxpayer funded and CIA-affiliated Heritage foundation.


Arial Cohen is also an active Zionist and writes on Israeli issues.  His beef with Russia is partially of Middle Eastern origin. For example he  is now  upset with Russia selling missiles to Syria.  



Although Russophobia in the US foreign policy is primarily Jewish driven, its roots are historic and to me  are not absolutely clear.    Hilaire Belloc wrote about this among other authors of repute, but wait, here  I just finished reading a work by Robert Crozier Long titled The Colors  of War. Robert Crozier Long was an Associate Press front line  correspondent in Russia during the First World War - he might have even  stayed in Russia at the time of the Bolshevist putsch that destroyed the country for good in 1917.  The Colors of War was published in 1915 and  consists of war reportage all written in the 1914. There is a phrase I  recall (the fighting was going on in Poland at the time) and there the Germans capture the town of Lublin - he writes - that the Germans brought in ethnic Jews as the administrators for the town because Poles,though were  supposedly oppressed in the Russian Empire, could be  suspected of Russophilia, of sentiment of compassion, while Jews were  not, in fact he says it is "the race that hates Russia and Russians  most".  I thought that was a curious observation that somehow foretold  the events of the so-called Russian Revolution and echoes eerily with  our day, with today's anti-Russian propaganda and the frenzied industry  of Russophobia. The latter, I am afraid, that have ethnic root (and not necessarily Jewish as anyone familiar with the situation in Estonia  would testify).


The extent of outside Jewish hatred expressed for Russia through the controlled media in the so-called West, but primarily in America, or  through actions of state apparatus of subservient  entities like the  United States (I won't call it an independent nation) is to me frankly  puzzling. Why would that be the case? Russia is itself a state  controlled by a number of Jewish clans.  Another book tells how this  happened, the Jewish Century by Yuri Slezkine, Princeton University Press,  which is hardly anti-Semitic as the author is a  Soviet Jew and the book won a number of awards from Jewish organizations in the United States.  To me it looks like a match between two  clans of similar origins with traditional historic Russophobia mixed in, the Cohen's New York Times editorial is just a salvo in that ongoing  battle. 


Obviously not all foreign and domestic Jews are Russophobes but there is a trend one cannot just dismiss off hand like one cannot dismiss the  origins of the majority of so-called Russian bilionaires merely as a coincidence. But perhaps it is a coincidence. May be. 



By the way here is a curious article about Bolsheviks and their crimes in Russia: 

http://www.darkmoon.me/2011/crimes-of-the-bolsheviks-edited-by-isabella-fanfani 

all true but the comments, some of them written by obvious anti-Semites  are not large number of Bolshevik victims were Jewish including those whose  wealth was expropriated and there were numerous factors that allowed  Bolsheviks to succeed. 


A few notes on the Russian parliamentary elections.


The criminal Putinista junta would do anything to stay  in power.

There are reports of massive electroral violations in St. Petersburg  (like the commissioner in Kupchino,  one of the largest electoral  districts, left in unknown directions and took all the voter bulletins  with. Nothing is known. No electoral results announced.  St. Petersburg  is the most "normal" and well-behaving location in Russia - in the sense  of elections at least - one could just imagine what goes on in other  places.  A friend of mine who is in the loop told me that the United  Russia (a so-called party, though it has no ideology or electoral  platform of any kind) will steal 20% to 25% of votes.  As of this time 

the vote in St. Petersburg shows 29% share of the United States which  places their real "result" in something like 4% range.  Overall in  country the United Russia will attempt to break through 50% barrier  though in reality it would get about 30% of the vote. That what was  predicted and that is what is now happening. 



 

Russian Federation in Asia - according to the WikiNazis

I shared this message with literally a couple (two) friends but now thought would make it more public because the Orientalisation of Russia as pushed by the American enemy, the US officialdom and Academic is symptomatic, fairly new (picked up steam in the last 10 years or so) and persistent. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plate

WikiNazis following CIA and Washington Propaganda Ministry instructions push the notion of Russian Federation being entirely in Asia. This is a feature of now already old plan of Orientalisation of Russia (both Rosenberg's Nazi and post American). I left a comment in their discussion section but it will be deleted because Wikipedia "editors" delete everything disagreeable from their hilarioisly misnamed discussion pages.


Hi Wiki Nazis - why is the Russian Federation in Asia?  Wikipedia's own article on Russian Federation states that Russia covers 40% of Europe and is the largest European state with 80% of its population living in the European part of the country. Russia was always considered a European power - until last few years which were marked by a deliberate push on the part of Russia's  American enemy to change the perception - so why  put the whole thing in Asia?

A comment left for a Völkischer Beobachter propagandist

An American-Nazi bitch stationed appropriately in Berlin, in employ of   American Völkischer Beobachter the New York Times wrote this piece on "democratization of Russia" and EU Russian relations.

In it among all the outrageous and contradictory absurdities, the New York Times cunt claims that EU visa policy vis-a-vis Putinista Russian Federation may change something and push hopeless Russian Federation toward the path of salvation through conversation to the (subject to Washington approval) gods of democracy.

The piece begged for a critical comment which I of course left for the apparently literate cunt to read and enjoy:

Now, Cunt, tell me why would the rest of Europe or the mighty though bankrupt Fourth Reich itself (the U.S. of A.  that is) give a fuck about democratization of Russia but not, say, care even a bit about democracy or abysmal lack thereof in Singapore or Saudi Arabia? What about Qatar? Or even an EU member, the pesky ethno-Nazi statelet of Estonia where only people of right ethnicity are allowed to vote? That is frankly beyond me. Democratization of Russia (whatever that is) is a big issue but of Saudi Arabia is apparently not. Why is that?  I am not a Russian national though am of (half) Russian descent and this sort of Russophobe garbage that the rag that employs you is printing all over, week after week, year after year, puzzles me quite a bit.

Now, Cunt, come on, tell me how come visa barriers against helpless people (provided Russia is not a democracy, though of course it is more democratic than the USA but that's a different story altogether - and not that democracy is some kind of religion - but say Russia is not democratic hence its population can influence nothing as it has no say in anything) are of any value in promoting that phony democracy thing of yours at the time when under terms of EU-RF visa agreement all Russian officials and bureaucrats  can already travel to and throughout the EU visa-free, but ordinary people are subjected to humiliation and abuse by both their own and EU bureaucrats. Or why shouldn't EU or US punish Singaporean nationals just because their state is not a democracy but is in fact a one-party dictatorship? Or what about punishing Saudis, surely they routinely execute women by stoning on made up infidelity charges and there is not even a pretext of voting or of representative government, so what about them? And Russia is a fucking big deal -  that's not very logical or consistent or democratic, bitch, is it?

Roobit

The Homecoming of EU chickens

The most recent rounds of EU expansion- or the better medically-sounding term for this condition, the “enlargment”, is far more appropriate, were purely political undertakings ( actually perhaps not the most recents ones but all the new “acquistions” since 1990 except perhaps for EU’s Anschlüß with Austria). These acquisitions did not benefit the cause of the long term European unity. Some ethnofascist states were “adopted” as long as they were rabidly Russophobe and equally rabidly pro-American (apparently the only criteria that mattered at the time) like the tiny Nazi statelet of Estonia. Many long term political issues were unresolved, grievances and historic injustices (like the Benesch decrees in the Czech Republic) were not addressed. It was done because the EU really wanted the new members and little dwarfs that run it from behind the curtains thought that this is the historic moment and they are the collective Charlemagne or the Charlemagne collective. This whole thing was just hastily pushed through as if it were a land grab which I guess it was. It seems the best option for the present day EU would be to suffer a major catastrophe and die hopefully a not too painful death. A reform from within is something I wouldn’t expect though I do passionately believe in Easter bunny.

Being smoke free, no triumphant feelings

 Today is my third day without cigarettes.  It feels awful. I quit twice in the past. The longest I stayed smoke-free was for about a year. I also did not drink anything (anything worth drinking that is ) during that miserable year and yes stimulant-wise this period of self-induced ascetism was most abysmal. 

Why did I not drink? For me alcohol in any form is the most powerful smoking trigger I can think of. No drink, no smoke. On the other hand I enjoy drinking. There is no particular reason I quit this time. So why did I quit this time? My father does it perpetually. Now in his 60s, he quits intermittently, every second month or so he goes off the hook, then stays tobacco-free for a month or two and then lights up again. 


A few observations.

Smoking cessation guides of which there is a legion out on the Internet all claim that physical withdrawal symptoms disappear after 72 hours.  In reality, those symptoms got much worse.  Actually the first 24 hours were tolerable, the next 24 barely tolerable and the craving for a cigarette after 72 hours became almost unbearable.

I’ve got vast quantities of wine, whiskey, brandy stashed in the house and cigarette packs lay around all over.  

Lack of concentration -  it is next to impossible to concentrate on anything,. Even writing this sentence requires an enormous effort. I can’t see how I can do any kind of work in the next few days. Screw that. Perhaps doing menial tasks like laying bricks or driving one of my Fiats around, pointlessly while listening to something upbeat and inspiring might be the only sort of thing I can do now. Talking of upbeat and inspiring - just got a fabulous CD with a recording of Le Triomphe de la République, the 1792 work by François-Joseph Gossec, with Swiss Radio Choir, good stuff,  so beautifully French, so alien, so remote, so upbeat, so inspiring. On the CD cover there is a reproduction of a painting depicting some proud common man, un citoyen, someone who stood up in defense of the republic no doubt. The man is smoking a pipe.

A poll of the failed 1991 Soviet Union "coup"

Interesting opinion poll of the so-called coup of 1991 in Russia:
http://www.5-tv.ru/video/506466/

if time could be reversed, in 1991 would you:
1) man the barricades (support "democracy")
2) support the coup (support elemination of Gobrachev, Eltsin /Yeltsin and forcible if necessary restoration of the Soviet Union)
3) just stand aside - I don't care

1) 10%
2) 82%
3) 8%

Russian junta's love for all things German and the Little Nasty Dwarf to run a show race for anti-Russian statelet's presidency

The opinion poll (Levada center, 2011), use translate.google.com
http://www.levada.ru/press/2011060103.html

(http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.levada.ru%2Fpress%2F2011060103.html)

The results are clearly schizophrenic.

Out of five top "allies" the top  three - Kazakhstan, Belorussia and Ukraine - are parts of Russia, historic territories of the Russian state, separated as artificially created "national republics" during the long night of the Bolshevik captivity.

The fourth state is... Germany.

Something that I find hardly comprehensible or rather totally incomprehensible.

That entity - because the Federal Republic of Germany is the direct legal heir to the Prussian state, to the German empire and to the Nazi Third Reich (unlike the GDR which had explicitly nothing to do with those criminal entities) has a peculiar track record - it  destroyed Russian state in 1917 - something that was never restored, unleashed Communism on the Russian people, invaded Russia twice in the space of 40 years, unleashed Nazism, murdered more Russians than were otherwise killed or died from epidemics in the course of the world's entire history, destroyed vast number of cultural objects and landmarks, at a junction in time the criminal state of Germany was partitioned but  most tragically it was again re-united unconditionally by Gorbachev-Eltsin gang and as the ultimate gesture of ingratitude German leadership did everything to enlarge the EU with new anti-Russian statelets (especially the ethno-Nazi statelets in the Baltics), expand NATO (which was a German initiative), and support Islamist militancies in the Balkans and Caucasus: Germany has the largest Chechen population now, thanks to particularly receptive and openly anti-Russian asylum policies. German visas are among the most difficult to get for the Russian nationals - far worse than Spanish, French or Finnish Schengen visas. I would rank Germany as the most anti-Russian state in (old) Europe, after Britain and Sweden. Germany in today's form is however a new state (unlike say Austria), so I am unsure about placing it entirely with the old Europe (with Russia and France), perhaps its personality is split as it has a lot in common, spiritually at least, with the ethnostate which emerged on Europe's periphery in the course of the 20th century.

Although it was nominally democratic Czech(-oslovak with Slovak part being pretty much a nobody, not even the second fiddle) state committed horrific crimes against its German speaking citizens and indirectly against Germany, in Russia it was all the other way around as the number of Russian victims is disproportionate to German and Nazi ones. This said I find that Czech attitudes toward Germany today are far more reserved than what one sees in Russia, where jubilant and slavish Germanophilia is the norm especially when it comes to monstrous merchandise churned out by Teutonic industries.  An example would be the extraordinarily overpriced German Siemens   fast speed trains that run now on preposterous (from economic and societal perspective) Moscow to St. Petersburg route. Although the French built TGV and Italian  faster versions of FIAT Pendolino (the train unit is also owned by Alstom) offered to do the same for a fraction of the price and although unlike Siemens Alstom has experience of fast trains in Arctic (in Finland), the junta chose German because it was German. Likewise the junta created a cult of German car - both government and mafia (both are essentially the same in Russia) drive Mercedeses and BMWs - I can't see French president drive or rather be driven in a piece of German junk). Since Germany is a biological enemy of everything Russian, the choice to me is both puzzling and  revealing.

Name five countries which you might call the closest friends and  allies of  Russia ...? * (Responses ranged from last measurement)

	2005	2006	2007	2009	2010	2011
	V	V	VIII	III	V	V
Belorussia	46	47	38	50	49	35
Kazakhstan	20	33	39	38	32	33
Ukraine	17	10	11	3	20	21
Germany	23	22	24	17	24	20
China	12	24	19	18	16	18
India	16	15	14	12	14	16
Cuba	-	-	-	8	10	13
Armenia	9	14	15	15	15	11
France	13	8	9	9	11	9
Azerbaijan	5	7	5	10	8	9
Bulgaria	11	10	9	9	8	9
Italy	6	7	8	5	8	6
Venezuela	-	-	2	8	10	6
Kyrgyzstan	5	7	7	9	4	6
USA	11	5	6	2	7	5
Tajikistan	3	3	7	9	4	5
Egypt	2	1	2	2	2	5
No such	10	13	10	13	11	11
Difficult to answer	14	15	18	14	12	15

* Contains the first twenty countries in descending order


Here is how Belarussians view the world (2007, though I don't believe much changed since then), use translate.google.com
http://www.eurasianhome.org/xml/t/socials.xml?lang=ru/&nic=socials&pid=38



Despite massive propaganda campaign unseen since Stalin era and unprecedented monopolization of media attention, the "rating" of Russia's appointed   tyrant, Medvedev, is at humble 44% while Putin's inflated approval is at 49%, a figure I find myself difficult to believe in as it should hover somewhere in the low 10s.  I haven't met anyone who voted or would vote for the cockroach.

On top of that comes the news that two-bit tyrant Putin decided to put his phony candidacy up for mock elections.

Photos from the protests in Israel

Protests in Israel, huge, massive, incredible, totally unreported by the media as they are not even taking place. How big are Israeli protests? They are same as if 10 million people demonstrated in Moscow.  The CIA paid "opposition" in Russia rarely gathers 100 people for its demonstrations, never mind millions, but those puny laughable theatrics attract massive media attention while massive demonstrations in Israel, miraculously, go on unnoticed. Here are some incredible photos from Israel which the media does not (do not) show you.

http://cryptome.org/info/israel-protest/israel-protest.htm

On Magnitsky, dissidents and Syria

The US is upset about Magnitsky (Magnitski), a scummy lowlife that died in custody in the Russian Federation. In fact the haughty Fourth Reich even introduced visa sanctions on Russian officials while meek and timid Russia Federation does not possess the testicles to respond in kind or in better   by say kicking Coca Cola and Ford out of the country.  One has to remember though that in the United States thousands of innocents are murdered every year in police custody and the official count is over 650. Now the US government and the state department is apparently not bothered by the deaths of  thousands of its citizens in the police custody, but is shocked, just shocked, at the  demise of a single treasonous lowlife that was in employ of Wall Street interests and died of natural causes while in police custody in the Russian Federation.

For the few last weeks the media in the United States and its vassal states went on an offensive against Syrian president, "the tyrant" Assad,  who allegedly  might have mistreated some of the armed thugs who were sent to destabilize Syria and kill its citizens.

Now in the context of incredible uproar over death of a single treasonous lowlife (a Russian citizen kept  Russian police custody on charges of serious crimes) or how President Assad mistreats armed gangs on the rampage,  I am puzzled because I remember the way how the United States government dealt with its own dissidents and their families at Waco, Texas.  It barbecued, roasted alive, 74 men, women and children although the victims did not threaten anyone, did not steal billions and did not go out to kill people. Read this and watch the documentary clip. However vicious inhuman murder of 74 men and women (who were burned alive to the accompaniment of recorded screams of rabbits being slaughtered) is nothing compared to death of one despicable lowlife like Magnitsky. 

On 20th century Russo-Polish relations

Putin was wrong, criminally wrong, to apologize or say sorry for Katyn events after the plane-load of Russophobes crashed near Smolensk (which should have been celebrated as a national holiday and not a day of mourning for Russophobe lowlifes). Also it is funny that Brzeziński, the Supreme Russophobe, believes that Russia cannot have an opinion on its own history if the rest of the world considers it criminal. By rest of the world he means the USA, East European Nazis and himself - which even when put together hardly represent more than 5% of world's population but do represent the humanity's most inhumane and criminal part. 

The link was originally forwarded to me by Mike Averko, a gentleman who is knowledgeable about Russian Polish affairs and who though an  American  is consistent in his anti-fascist views.

 

 

http://www.russiablog.org/2009/10/russian-polish-history-averko.php

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2011/08/16/revisiting-contentious-issues-of-polish-russian-relations.html

 

Ruslan LYNEV | 16.08.2011 | 12:00

Recently RIAN, the key Russian media outlet, hosted a presentation of several books which, based on documentary evidence, shed new light on the past conflict between Poland and the Soviet Union. In the process, the authors – scholars and archive researchers – seemed ready to jointly subscribe to the view that sober assessments are at last beginning to prevail over selfish political motivations in the debates over the history of the Polish-Soviet relations. This, however, was not what I gathered from The White Spots – The Black Spots, a collection of papers by Polish and Russian authors on the same theme. A detailed analysis of the materials can be found in Issue 6 of the Novaya Polsha journal. The ideas expressed therein essentially combine into a fairly unconvincing attempt to build an academic framework around the point set forth by Z. Brzeziński years ago in The Wall Street Journal: the Russian administration, as he believes, has no right to avoid pronouncing a judgment on Russia's past which the rest of the world regards as criminal. The legitimate question in the context is: was Poland constantly an innocent victim of the Soviet Union with no crimes against the USSR on its own record?     Poland, not Russia, unleashed the 1919 Polish-Soviet war and, moreover, most of the fighting at the time was on the territory of Ukraine. Józef Beck, a veteran of the 1919 war who later became Poland's foreign minister and as such a notorious proponent of rapprochement with Hitler recalled „killing everybody and burning down everything at the first suspicion”. The Red Army repelled the aggression and in 1920 launched a counter-attack during which the initial success caused the Soviet top commanders to completely lose touch with reality. As a result, the Red Army suffered a crushing defeat near Warsaw and Moscow was forced to open peace talks which produced the Treaty of Rigagiving Poland large chunks of Belarus and West Ukraine. In part, the talks revolved around the fate of Soviet servicemen who were executed or taken captive by Poland and perished in numbers in Polish camps due to inhumane conditions, starvation, epidemics, and degrading treatment. On September 6, 1921 Soviet commissar for foreign affairs G. Chicherin sent a note to the Polish chargé d’affaires ad interim stating that 60,000 of 130,000 Soviet POWs had died in captivity in Poland. Much earlier, on January 29, 1921 Col. K. Habicht of Poland's medical service who was involved in the Riga talks as an expert submitted to the Polish army command a memorandum of the Russian-Ukrainian Commission for the Repatriation of POWs accompanied by his own comments. One of the latter read: „Since it would be difficult to formulate a meaningful response to the charges we are facing, it makes sense to altogether brush them off with a reference to the fact that generally POWs in Russia are treated no better than in our country”. As a part of the response pressure strategy, Poland confronted Russia with a 1,495,192,042 marks bill for accommodating the Soviet inmates. The Soviets reacted by pressing a four times bigger claim based on the calculation of the costs of the inmates' forced labor, and the material compensations issue was promptly dropped from the agenda. The view broadcast over the past several years by the Polish media is that the isolated incidents of war-time abuse in Poland, albeit real, were nothing compared to the abuse perpetrated by the Soviet Union which for decades pursued the strategy of subduing Poland. Yet, what is being discussed were not isolated incidents. Poland's 1919 war veteran turned foreign minister Józef Beck wrote rather revealingly: „As for Russia, I can't find enough words to describe our hate for it”. Józef Piłsudski's calls for leaving nothing but death or captivity to the retreating Red Army stemmed from the same sentiment. In fact, Piłsudski used to tell that he dreamed to seize Moscow and to leave an inscription on the Kremlin wall saying: „Speaking Russian is prohibited!”. Were the incidents really isolated? In the former Soviet Union, the overarching principle of the approach to the history of Polish-Soviet relations was to maintain complete silence on all potentially divisive issues and to carefully avoid reviving old grievances. Since the late 1980ies, the Polish political elites, historians, and commentators started pushing for such relations with Russia that would stop short of cutting off all ties with Moscow but would, as late Polish president L. Kaczyński suggested, enable Poland to permanently draw benefits from Russia.The „partnership” model affords flexibility in handling historical problems to such an extent that Novaya Polsha could even publish Ya. Podolsky's recollections of the Polish captivity, though the material was tailored to the point of selling the Polish Gulag as some kind of paradise. The death toll among the Soviet POWs in Polish captivity remains the key contentious issue. In a clear attempt to downplay the proportions of the tragedy, Poland asserts that as of October 18, 1920 it held 110,000 Red Army servicemen (Novaya Polsha, № 11, 2005). Some 25,000 immediately switched their loyalty to the Polish army and joined the Cossack and other White Army formations, and 65,797 eventually returned to the Soviet Union. According, for example, to Polish historian Z. Korzun, the rest – some 16,000 – 18,000 people – died in Poland of injuries and epidemics which at the time raged across Europe, or of severe conditions which were justifiable considering Poland's own material embarrassments. Russian researcher T. Matveev holds based on currently available documentary sources that the number of Red Army servicemen taken captive by the Polish forces was 157,000 instead of 110,000. I. Pikhutina puts the figure at 165,550 with a reference to documents found in Soviet and Polish archives. Finally, V. Filimoshin's estimate is 296,877. The significant dispersion is owed to two circumstances. First, the reporting of the delivery of inmates to Polish camps and of the deaths in them used to be extremely incomplete. Secondly, whatever figures available do not reflect those who were left on the battle fields or killed on the spot, which at the time happened routinely. It is an open secret that Red Army captives who were commissars, communists, or Jews were subject to immediate execution in Poland. The number of Red Army servicemen who died on the way from the places of captivity to camps also remains unknown. Overall, the statistics fails to account for what happened to some 40,000-50,000 Red Army servicemen. The calculations performed by military historian V. Filimoshin show that around 82,500 Red army servicemen died in Poland. In 1998, Russia's attorney general asked his Polish counterpart to open a probe into the causes of the deaths but heard back that no investigation into “the alleged extermination of the Bolsheviks taken captive during the 1919-1920 war” would be conducted. In other words, Polandwants the Katyn massacre to be condemned as an act of genocide but the concentration camps it ran in Tuchola, Strzałkowo, Bialystok, and Brest – to be regarded as perfectly normal institutions. In fact, the Red Army servicemen were not the only category of people to face inhumane conditions in Poland. White movement leader A. Denikin recalled that the White Army forces were similarly ill-treated in Polish camps at the time. In the 1920ies, the triumphant Poland launched a sweeping campaign of uprooting all things Russian. When the Russian Cathedral of Saint Alexander of Neva, a shrine with artwork of exceptional value, was looted and destroyed in Warsaw, a Polish newspaper wrote that by this Poland had demonstrated moral superiority over Russia. In contrast, even L. Trotsky, otherwise renown for his ruthless character, wrote in July, 1920 that the Red Army should treat captive Poles generously, the reports of Polish atrocities notwithstanding. These days, the EU intends to observe August 23 – the date of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact - as the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism. It is clear that as a part of the event Moscow will be taking hammering and showered with calls for recanting Russia's past and handing out various compensations, while others will as usual remain insulated from criticism. On our part, it would be a huge mistake to accept the approach to history as a norm.

Three first essential formlas (formulae) to understand the state of affairs in Europe and former Soviet space

Good now we are getting there

Three  very important formulas to understand what is going on and I guess intelligent people have figured this formulae out on their own.

The First one:  Nazism and America
The  US is the heir (not a heir) to the Third Reich.
The Third Reich would be good guys if they did not kill the Jews. That's their only sin.
Nazis fought Communism. America and NATO fought Communism.
Nazis's enemy is Russia.  America's (and its vassals') enemy in Russia.

The Second one: the Tiger of Islamic Extremism and Riding the said Tiger
- Islamic extremism is good when it is directed against Russia or Serbia.
- Islamic extremism is bad when it is directed against the USA and Israel.

The Third one: rights of ethnic groups and "nationalities. This formula applies to the EU as well.
- Nationalities and ethnic groups favored by the USA and EU have certain rights.
- Nationalities and ethnic groups not favored by the USA and EU have no rights.

A dialogue that followed my translation of that Islamofascist (in the real sense of both Islamic terrorist and fascist) Polish lowlife minister Radek Sikorski's revelations.

A dialogue that followed my translation of that Islamofascist (in the real sense of both Islamic terrorist and fascist) Polish lowlife minister Radek Sikorski's revelations.

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From what I know Richard Lowry is a Nazi and an extreme Islamophobe. He is a fan of water-boarding and he advocated nuking Mecca.

Likewise as a Nazi is expected to be a Russophobe. I haven't yet met Russophile Nazis in America.

By the way who talked to lowly Rich Lowry, did you, Mike - it would be astonishing that he would feel sympathetic to your protestation of racial and ideological bias because that's what National Review is all about.

As of Sikorski. He is symbolic of his nation's natural traits -  meanness,  treachery and pathological ingratitude. In the 1980s he hanged out with the Taliban and Muslim terrorists,  he got food from their hands,  chances are those guys even petted their Polish dog.  in the 1990s he was in bed with American Nazis like Richard Lowry and even managed to befried the pro-Israel lobby.  Right now he has committed his hyena of a nation to a war of aggression against people who gave him comfort and lived with him in the 1980s.   What Sikorski deserves is to be turned over to his old Afghan friends - I wonder if they kill him right away or cut his balls off first.

There was an article published by the Völkischer Beobachter in Washington (http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/will-the-libya-intervention-bring-the-end-of-nato/2011/04/11/AFhvpoMD_story.html) authored by Sikorski's Russophobe wife on war of aggression against people of Libya. I don't believe those rats give a dead rat's ass about people of Libya but they are bothered by what can happen to the NATO unity as the potential battering ram in the planned war of aggression against Russia. They only thing they care about (Sikorski and Appelbaum, Appelbaum might also care a bit about the sad state of the state of Israel) is hurting Russia and Russians. That's what Sikorski concern for Libya, NATO's phony unity of EU's Eastern Partnership or how the heck is that travesty called, are all about.


 

Re: http://www.austereinsomniac.info/

 

Briefly, from a friend on the church situation -

 

http://krotov.info/acts/20/1920/shtric_02.htm

 

I note your recent post on Sikorski.

 

In the early 1990s, Sikorski wrote noticeably anti-Russian commentary for National Review (NR). This was before he joined the AEI and might've been before his meeting and/or marriage to Ann Applebaum. My sense is that he has learned to cover-up his views Western style.

 

In one of his NR articles, Sikorski describes a train ride with a Russian woman. After listening to him, she (in the article) asks why does he hate us (Russians)? Sikorski gave (what for some is) the standard reply of Russians not fessing up to their past. In a phone conversation, NR's editor Rich Lowry was unsympathetic to my protestation of such bias.

 

On the matter of fessing up to the past:

 

http://www.russiablog.org/2009/10/russian-polish-history-averko.php

 

Over the years, NR selectively used Solzhenitsyn. His general opposition to Communism is propped, unlike his opposition to anti-Russian propaganda.

 

BTW, there was some other journo of Polish origin besides Sikorski who was in Afghanistan rooting for the anti-government rebels at the time of the Soviet military intervention there. That guy came across as a real SOB. I recall him filming a dying soldier aired on PBS.